The two bodies found at the end of last week in Charente-Maritime are indeed those of Leslie Hoorelbeke and Kevin Trompat, who disappeared in November 2022 from Deux-Sèvres, confirmed Tuesday March 7 the public prosecutor in Poitiers, Cyril Lacombe.
The victims were probably killed by blows “with a blunt object”, the prosecutor said. The magistrate did not specify the “motivations for taking action”, considering that they “remain to be confirmed”, between “sentimental disappointment” or financial debt.
After three months of investigation into the mysterious disappearance of the couple on the night of November 25 to 26, 2022 in Prahecq, a village of 2,000 inhabitants near Niort, three men were indicted and imprisoned last week, including two for assassinations.
The body of Kevin Trompat, 21, was exhumed on Friday in a field by the side of a road in Puyravault, a town where the couple’s belongings were found in December in a container for recycling clothes, near the home of one of the suspects. That of Leslie Hoorelbeke, 22, was exhumed on Saturday in a grove in the neighboring town of Virson.
